I think control is the only game where I went out of my way to read each and every little note and message and all that crap. Whoever worked on that stuff did an amazing job. I had so much fun reading and listening to all that stuff and learning about the world
I've been playing Battlebit Remastered on Steam and holy shit while it looks awful it's one of the funnest FPS I have played in a while. Super fun, super smooth, and scratches the COD itch from when I was a kid. I HIGHLY reccomend it!
It's got all the promise of the battlefield games just not the graphics/sound. Environment destruction, tons of weapons/attachments, lots of maps with day/night for all of em, different battlefield modes, 256 (and smaller) maps, map voting, people get kicked for cheating/racism, tight gameplay, and so on.
+1 on Battlebit. Battlefield 1942, and similarly Vietnam, were my favorite. I always felt like Dice/EA just kept gradually turning everything up to 11 after that. Battlebit feels like a well balanced, intentional concept, that balances speed, strategy, and the opportunities for ridiculous moments just right!
Mix of Diablo 4 and Halo Infinite multi-player depending on which friend group is online. Technically started AC:Valhalla as my single player game, but I get so little alone gaming time these days that I'm still only 45 minutes in after 3 weeks.
Final Fantasy XVI, and it's consuming my thoughts to a degree that surprises me, considering I haven't really liked one of those games since FFX. I've already put 15 hours on it since Friday (quite a bit for me, I don't get very much time to game these days). It really is incredible; I haven't had this much fun with a game since probably Read Dead II. I'm also playing Battlebit Remastered on the rare occasion that my friends and I are able to game at the same time.
I travel for work so on my laptop I installed Fallout 4 with a modpack obtained through Wabbajack installer (Welcome to Paradise) and I'm playing through as a melee-only knight. I'm using console commands to stock up on stimpacks and radaway so that I don't have to stop and loot since I've played this game several times; I can just run around like a madman with a sword, slicing legions of enemies apart. Playing it as an action game has been a ton of fun.
Also nice username/pic @Teft, I'm a big Stormlight Archives fan.
Right now, Battlebit Remastered (which I just bought). Despite being not that good at the gunplay yet, I'm doing well and having fun just playing a medic and dragging people out of the line of fire for revives and heals. Highlight of today was frantically healing everyone in a full chopper while we dueled an enemy chopper over a capture point, with the pilot micspamming Pirates of the Caribbean music the whole time. Really brings me back to the good ol days of multiplayer lobbies (without a lot of the casual bigotry - game seems pretty good at actually banning it so far).
I have been finishing up Tunic. The game is fantastic and I love seeing all of the small little things that have been accessible the whole time that I have since gained the knowledge to interact with.
After I finish that, I want to work on Dread Delusion.
Warframe: Really loving the Duviri update. I'm an old player but there's suddenly a reason to build out a lot of weapons that I've mostly ignored beyond Mastery farming. Fortunately, I kept everything so the only issue is having enough forma.
Minecraft: Randomly wanted to play it again (heavily modded, All the Mods 8, I have to scratch that automation itch). Haven't played in ages, so pillagers were a vanilla surprise and so was the fact you can now dig past y=0 (along with the new interesting caves and berries). In the end, though, I'm still a dirty melon farmer that subsists solely off my melons.
Kenshi: I also started Kenshi a bit ago. It's an interesting game, but it's certainly a slow burn which I don't necessarily like. I'm up to 10 characters now, but only two of them can handle combat with any degree of competency and everyone else keeps falling over from the slightest breeze. I'm currently just living out of Squin until enough passing by herbivores get stomped that my team can handle real combat. Fortunately, mining is extremely lucrative so I don't have to worry about food.
I've been thrilled with duviri for the same reason! I've gained some respect for weapons that I had previously disregarded and sold after leveling. It really feels like it's putting new life into the game. At least to someone who's gotten through most of it.
For Forma, it can be easier to farm platinum through various means and then buy the 3 for 35 plat bundles. That’s my typical weekly grind when I want to accelerate the forma gathering. There’s also a way I remember seeing where you can farm fully built ones but it’s not the most efficient
Diablo 4. It's good, not great but I think it's a good foundation to build upon. I'm interested to see what Blizzard does for season 1. I don't expect anything dramatic like Diablo 3's latest season, but I'm still looking forward to it.
Likewise. Enjoying Diablo 4 while waiting to see whether Final Fantasy XVI 60fps mode performance will improve at some point.
Got D4 on PS5 and PC, jumping between both of them and a Steam Deck. Really good, mindless game. Still making my way trough the story, since I enjoy narrative content more than the grind.
As far as singleplayer games go, I‘m playing Slay the Spire! I‘ve never played it much before (just modded meme classes) and it finally clicked with me!
Been kinda burned out on videogames, I've been playing tears of the kingdom but I got the master sword about two weeks ago and haven't gone back to the game since.
My router died a couple of days ago (using mobile data to post this) do I have to play offline games... Good thing I installed a bunch of games on GoG just in case. Tried out Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis this morning, currently clearing the tutorial dungeon in Daggerfall Unity.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was one of my favorite games as a kid. Could never understand why every time I played it the sound settings seemed to shift, but hey, I was 8
I'm deep into the second act of Ghost of Tsushima and I'm completely baffled how I missed this game when it came out. It's absolutely beautiful in every way possible
just beat red dead redemption 2. seriously epic story and amazingly gorgeous environments. going to dabble in red dead online just to get a few more achievements. thinking elden ring next!
Beat the Miles Morales game recently. Got 100% completion too. Not often I ever complete a game either. Still got a ways to go with Tears of the Kingdom, and then probably a return to Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories. I've gotta beat that game and I can finally play KH2 with a clear conscience.
As much fun as Miles Morales was, the story wasn't very good. The Tinkerer was lame and a hypocrite. Miles just apologized to them for the entire half of the game and got annoying real quick. I really hope Spider-Man 2's story was made by the guys who did the first game and not this one.
Re: Stellaris - me too, and I bet a lot of other people as well. It has what my friend group calls "the Civilization problem"; the initial setup and expansion is by far more interesting than the late game when things are more static. Stellaris does it better than the Civ games, in my opinion (mid and late game crises and events help), but still falls into the same trap. I'm not really sure how this could be solved, but maybe something like late-game expansion opportunities (like the L cluster, but more) and more robust internal politics and espionage could help.
Agreed. I've seen there is a mod to add more mid/late game encounters or content, but I haven't tried it yet. I think more developed diplomatic events would make mid/late game more interesting. Most of my playthroughs end up being an arms race towards the end, which sure that can be a fun aspect of the game, but not super interesting. Very much like civ, and I think you're correct they both suffer from the late game "domination" aspect.
My idea of a successful Stellaris game it not coming in first, but making it to the end with a functional empire.
I'm also probably a noob when it comes to Stellaris, but I still enjoy it.
Glad to know it's not just me. Civ and Stellaris both, game progression for me goes like: fun, fun, fun, yeah screw that guy!, fun ... getting less fun, definitely not as fun anymore, meh.
I just picked up Cult of the Lamb which is at least silly fun. Bonus points for blasphemy!
Same! I'm slowly working my way through a melee build. Definitely won't finish before the patches change the gameplay significantly. Not sure how that'll feel mid playthrough
A weird mix of a murder mystery visual novel based in Joseon Korea (called Suhoshin) and FF 16, with short dips into Goat Simulator 3. Taking a short break from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but I'll get back to it after these.
I've been playing a ton of Diablo 4, trying to get through the story so I can hop into World Tier III and start getting endgame gear. Starting to get pulled into wanting a structured single play let game again though, so might get back into TotK to do some side quests, try to finish FF7 Remake, or play through Pikmin 3 again.
7 Days to Die. Basic zombie survival game. Friends and I set up a server and have been playing on and off for the past 2 years. The latest alpha version (A21) came out recently, so started playing again.
Spider-Man. Jesus, this game is amazing. I'm trying to 100% the whole game, so far I'm at 82% on the main story, 100% on The Heist (wanted that costume), and 0% on the rest of the DLC.
Spider-Man is one of my favorite games. When you're done, try Miles Morales. Is smaller but a whole lot of fun and it's amazing the little details to differentiate how Miles moves vs Peter.
I started with Half Life 2 and played a lot of Counter Strike back in the days.
This brings back memories even if I never played it and it's way better than I thought, too!
Mostly PC based stuff. Currently just started Unpacking, chill little cozy game. Been playing Voidigo for my fun twitch shooter fill. American/Euro Truck Simulator in VR for my sit back and drive fill. Skyrim VR for immersion.
Still trying to get into Tears of the Kingdom after 50 hours. I absolutely loved BOTW but I really have trouble feeling involved with TOTK, it feels like I've already played the game. They slightly changed everything just a bit, just enough to change the gameplay feeling but not enough for me to feel the same appeal to explore the world.
The Messenger. I saw a post here a bit ago about Sabotage's upcoming "Sea of Stars" which looked interesting, and I saw they'd also done a Ninja Gaiden-inspired game several years back, so I picked it up.
I'm a couple hours in, and I've been really enjoying it. It has a very NES-like feel, while still being a smooth experience, i.e. not held back by the limitations of the NES, just inspired by it. Apparently it kicks into an SNES-style experience later on, so that'll be fun to see.
I'm not sure how enjoyable it'd be to somebody who didn't grow up on the NES, but I've had fun with it so far.
Having a blast with FF XVI. It's definitely one of the most polished of recent games, everything just looks and plays fantastic. Even if the game is super shallow as soon as you do anything other than the main story. The fantastic voice of Ralph Ineson is the cherry on top.
Agree with you on the polish of FF16, but not so much on the side quests. I find that some of them - not all - add a little extra to the main quest line. But I'm also finding everything in the game to be pretty enjoyable.
I sunk in over 100 hours into update 6, but got a little disheartened when I ruined one of my factories. I am keeping an eye on the updates and as soon as 1.0 drops, I am going back in.
I'm glad I haven't played it on the Switch. My biggest complaint is all the waiting and repeated cutscenes / animations, and there's a godsend of a mod available for that!
I'm just sad that F1 23 is not bug free... Did a ranked game the other day and at the start on lap 1, one guy was in lap two already. Happened twice now, also to a friend of mine. Classic EA experience.
Age of Wonders 4. I'm a pretty big fan of 4X games and it's one of the best-streamlined examples of the genre I've found. It has a lot in common with Endless Legend, but feels much simpler for new players to approach. Only downside is that the devs have committed to doing quarterly DLC, with each one costing $10, and the first one is already out despite the game being extremely new.
Recently became a father and regained my love for my Switch, since it allows me to play in short bursts and pause whenever and wherever I need to. I'm currently playing through Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and loving it.
its been a nice little game so far. its a pretty simple jrpg with a focus on story and characters. its fantasy of sorts but isnt quite so goofy or convoluted as square enix games like to be. I've been good so far
My main game for way too long has been Escape From Tarkov (just can't seem to fully get away from it), but I've been taking a break from it for a few months.
In the meantime, I've been playing a lot of Slay the Spire, Monster Train, and emulating various games on PCSX2. It's been fun to play "lighter" stuff with less commitment! I'll occasionally pick up various other shooters for the sake of playing with my friends, there just isn't a lot in that realm that's really scratching the itch for me lately.
Torturing myself with Assassin's Creed series, I just beat Valhalla though, pretty good but could have been better if it was about half as long. That, and Tomb Raider series, made it to Underworld.
Just started Final Fantasy 16 today! Not very far in yet but I am enjoying it. Seems a little easy so far though but at least the combat looks cool lol
God of war on the SteamDeck ^^ I remember when it was a PS4 exclusive and I really wanted to play it. It feels incredible to be able to play, while holding the whole machine in my hands.
Currently playing Octopath 2. It’s has some interesting plot points and I like the turn based combat system and has a great nostalgia style for old pixel games.
I've been stuck on All The Mods 8 (Minecraft "kitchen sink" modpack) for the last week or two. Kinda just caveman-ing my way through all the quests. Playing with Minecolonies and setting up an RFTools Builder in the mining dimension so I don't have to manually mine most resources any more. I keep meaning to get back into ComputerCraft, maybe that's my objective for this evening.
I've been having a Minecraft itch lately. I haven't played in a couple years, but I used to have fun playing with some of the Feed the Beast packs. I think the last thing I played was their Skyblock pack
Huge fan of the Kingdom series. Still deciding whether to get this (for the Switch). How would you rank it against previous installments? Is it a ‘haha they put Stranger Things in my Two Crowns’ kind of novelty (which no doubt wears off soon), or does it feel like something that’s as explorable through replay as previously?
Star Citizen. It is a perpetually alpha state, beautiful, buggy mess. The potential for this being awesome is just through to roof. Getting there is going to be tough. I enjoy it a lot despite some of the latest very rough patches.
Been doing a lot of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous as my main game lately. Decided I wanted to do a third run with multiromance since the new companion is in, and it's worth it - Ulbrig is fantastic. Now I can have my posse of Daeran, Arueshalae, and Ulbrig!
Aside from that? Powerwashing Sim has been blissful for taking my mind off work stress. Should really get back into Dorfromantik for the same reason.
Atomic Heart. This game is amazing. It's been such a long time since we had a high budget single player fps with level design that not linear corridors and that are highly innovative in terms of architecture and style. Plus the fact that it's one of the best looking games out there, and there's lot of diversity (enemy styles, upgrades, puzzle rooms, weird story, etc). I nearly skipped it completely because of the Russian aspect, glad I came back to it. Fyck Putin for nearly making me miss on this awesome product. The only negative I have to say about it is the damn respawning resurrecting robots.
You should try the Yakuza games. I'm currently on Yakuza 0 with 150 hours in it. I'm gonna have to play through again to get all the achievements, but it has been one of most fun games I've ever played.
It’s pretty cool. The world is massive and exploration, especially of the underground is a lot of fun.
The game does contain a lot of busywork and the control scheme is pretty different from other games I play. That hampers my ability to continue with other games I was playing so I’m in a rush to end it.
Planning on FFXVI and a new Minecraft play though with my daughter after TotK.
I’ve been playing Zelda ToTK - I’m at about 100 hours and am on the final main quest. I’ve put it down for a little bit before I finish the main story. There’s still so much to do but I was ready for a break. Strangely enough the exact same thing happened with BotW. I got to the very end and then stopped for awhile.
Doesn’t help that Diablo IV came out. I’ve been playing that pretty heavily too. I got it on Xbox and then was so intrigued to try it on my Steam Deck that I bought it a second time and got it set up on the deck. It plays wonderfully. I’m a sucker for handheld gaming.
Currently playing through the FFVII remake, really enjoying it. Never played the original ff7 but engaged with some ff7 adjacent content like Advent Children.
When I don't have much time I'm playing through Cult of the Lamb on my Steam Deck and it's really quite charming!
Finished Forbidden West a cpl weeks ago and now working on Dead Space and Watch Dogs: Legion. Might grab something on sale next that I've wanted to play or pickup Cyberpunk.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance, I started playing AC:Syndicate too. I just want to try to play the games I've been meaning to get to before Starfield and CP2077:Phantom Liberty release because then I will have no time at all for any other games.
Last night I finished getting all of the author medals for all of the campaign tracks for Trackmania Nations Forever. I really enjoyed E01 and E04 after I got the hang of them, I needed a podcast for E05, and E02 and E03 can eat my ass.
Going through the extra semester/Palace in Persona 5 Royal on the Switch, playing Fire Emblem Echoes on the 3DS, and playing a level of Freedom Planet 2 on the PC here and there when I feel like it. Tears of the Kingdom should be getting to me some time this week, so I'll have that ready to go by the time I finally finish P5R!
Doing another playthrough of breath of the wild. I'm more or less over the story, so I'm just screwing around with the different glitches that were left unpatched. Right now I'm playing with the cryonis one for the trial of the sword. If I can complete it and kill the hinox, I'll think about getting tears of the kingdom. The control sticks like to get slippery halfway through his hp though...
Currently playing League of Legends: Wild Rift.
Game is much better in terms of controls, and the map is smaller, less cluttered, with a semi-normal community (compared to LoL).
Diablo IV: Love the combat. End game needs a lot of work. But it's still satisfying to play.
Voidigo: FFO Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, etc. - highly recommended
Really need to get back to Age of Wonders 4...
PS5:
Street Fighter 6 - I'm fucking terrible at fighting games. SF6 is no exception. But I picked it up because I want to try to learn. It's fun! I continue to be awful, but I hope to eventually dump enough time in to it to become competent.
FFXVI- I like it, but it's got a lot of problems. The forest/outdoor areas in general look fantastic, as do the characters. Interior environments often look terrible. The combat is okay, but it's not as deep as people would have you believe. It's styled like DMC, but it has none of the challenge and, honestly, without that it feels kinda lackluster. Still, I'm enjoying my time with it... it's just not the 9 or 10/10 game that I was hoping it would be.
I'm really into Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic right now. It's an amazing tycoon game that doesn't get the attention it deserves as the most realistic and granular city builder available. There's something so satisfying about managing every resource, vehicle, and worker to build an economy and society from the ground up.
From the WIki: Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the ultimate real-time Soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Developed by 3Divison it is available on Steam in Early-Access since 15th March 2019. Construct your own republic with a centrally planned economy and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower!
Underground 2 might be one of my favorite games of all time. I played it so much growing up that the green 350z is probably forever ingrained into my brain
I've been bouncing between a no-death run of Pikmin 2 (was gonna do it in Pikmin 4, but then Nintendo went and finally re-released them on Switch) and Omega Strikers (yay vyce).
My recommendation? Don't do a no-death run of P2; it's so tedious at times lmao.
Totk and I started to listen to earthbound music while at work, so I loaded up Mother 1 on 3ds... The save game put me at magicant, and I went back to the starting town and got killed by a death truck... Ninten can't breathe!
I'm replaying Heaven's Vault. I'm liking it a lot better this time through; the last time I played (a couple years ago) I really felt like I wasn't getting the big picture. This time I discovered a few big secrets I never found before, and now I'm into new game plus.
Been playing NFS Unbound the last couple of days. Got the Delorean and now I'm racing to kit it out. Game is a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be.
First witcher right now.
Tried it like 10 years ago and couldn't get past the clunky controls. In the meantime I've read most of the books and played the other games, so I had to give it a go and this time around I'm really enjoying it!
Honestly, I'm about 40h in and I've gotten used to it by now. Had one potentially game breaking bug but thankfully someone posted a way to circumvent it, so I'm just hoping it won't happen again (game kept crashing during the Salamandra base group fight).
I restarted my biannual Kingdom Come Deliverance run, and I'm much farther into it then I've ever gotten before. Probably because it's running so well on the Steam Deck these days.
Other then that Vampire Survivors for quick games and a two week long tournament in Intergalactic Fishing, a criminally underrated chill indie game.
Winding down on Zelda: TotK. Just started Path of Exile which has been in my Steam library for ages. I want to play Diablo IV, but I don't want to pay $70.
Recently discovered Urbek City Builder. It’s similar to Islanders and Dorfromantik except there’s an auto-upgrade mechanic where building tiles respond to changes in neighboring tiles. It creates a wonderful feeling of emergent behavior where putting down a single new tile creates beautiful ripple effects. The experience on the Nintendo Switch is decent but I’ll probably be buying it again for PC shortly
Zelda and Brotato. Brotato is like the actualization of what all the Vampire Survivors clones could be. Unlike the rest of the genre, you're not getting massive permanent scaling boosts, just unlocks for items that can appear in the runs roguelike style.
Turtle is great. Like how they enhance the Paladin class.
Having said that, I'm currently enjoying WoW Ascension's latest server. So many new classes to play, and enchantments and build points assignment while leveling is done for you automagically, so you don't have to hassle with that.
Watch dogs 2. I've been leaving it alone for a week here and there and then coming back to it. I feel like the watch dogs series gets way more hate than it deserves, none of what I've played of 1 and 2 have lined up with what I had heard about it online.
Currently doing yet another play through in Skyrim VR (Heavily modded of course) If you have a vr headset and have never tried it, I can highly recommend. Keep in mind there are a few essential mods to make the VR version worth playing.
Battlefield 1. Trying to get back into multiplayer games and I loved this when it first came out. But I reckon I'll jump to Battlebit and give that a go. I miss the PlanetSide 2 days when the Aussies had a server that people actually played in and Battlebit seem like just as much chaos.
Just finished Tears of the Kingdom. Fantastic experience. Dug through my Humble Choice backlog yesterday and landed on Monster Prom co-op with my gf. Surprisingly fun game that I would have completely missed.